This was a really great post about nursing intuition. The talking heads, of course, by now with which you're familiar, made me take it down as supposedly one person in the universe could identify the patient I referenced loosely.
Riiiiiiiiight.
Monday, January 22, 2007
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That all made me cry...
Bestial. Unbearable horror that you see so often in your line of work...
Children's suffering...
I can't find the words. Sorry.
One of my ER docs once told me that the criteria for an LP on a child was : if it crosses your mind that they may need one, do it! It crossed your mind for a reason....
Thanks for this post. As a new nursing student, I'm overwhelmed at all the thought processes I'm learning to go through and have been wondering where intuition fits in. It seems like there are too many "wrong right answers" in nursing sometimes!
Professional intuition is the ability to see or sense when the expected picture doesn't match what is. Usually the differences are subtle enough to elude description (diagnosis). Ergo, the "gut" reaction.
The more expert and experienced the professional at assessment and knowing what clinical picture to expect, the higher the ability to distinguish subtler variations - fine tuning intution.
It's not magic - it's expertise.
And you've got it.
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